Google Suffers Setback in Fight Over $2.6 Billion EU Fine
- EU court adviser gives opinion in Google antitrust fine appeal
- The then-record fine was part of a trio of key EU probes
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google should lose its court fight to topple a €2.4 billion ($2.6 billion) European Union fine for unfairly favoring its own shopping services, an adviser to the EU’s top court said.
Google “was leveraging its dominant position on the market for general search services to favor its own comparison shopping service by favoring the display of its results,” Juliane Kokott, an advocate general at the EU’s Court of Justice, said in a non-binding opinion on Thursday.